158: Silent Hill

Guide to the Unknown

Kristen Anderson and William Rogers

Arts, Comedy, Tv & Film

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2020

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Join us for a trip to the scenic, foggy town of Silent Hill. Don't mind the bodies! We'll also make a pit stop in Centralia, PA, the real town that helped inspire the movie -- with a fire that's been burning underground for nearly 60 years. Make sure to visit DebbieDrawsFunny.com for irreverent, pop culture-inspired greetings cards, stationery, mugs, tote bags are more -- and use code GTTUPOD for 20% off your purchase! Get access to monthly bonus podcasts and tons of other content by supporting us through http://www.patreon.com/gttupod! Thank you so much! Get the Blair Witch game at huntakiller.com/blairwitch Read Kristen's writing at huntakiller.com/blog For full sources and links, visit http://www.gttupod.com/home/gttu158 Visit our website for all things Guide to the Unknown at gttupod.com! Watch the video of our conversation at http://www.youtube.com/talkbomb Follow us online: http://www.instagram.com/gttupod http://www.facebook.com/gttupod http://www.twitter.com/gttupod And join our private Facebook group at http://www.facebook.com/groups/gttupod

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0:00.0	The environment that they built is to me perfect.
0:03.8	I think it's my favorite horror game, movie, anything.
0:06.8	It is my favorite horror release of all time. Hello, welcome to guides the unknown. I'm Kristen. And I'm her little brother,
0:19.2	William. And this week we are traveling to a scary town called Silent Hill where they play
0:26.5	video games of monsters and gray children and a church bell rings in the
0:32.3	distance.
0:33.0	Yes, it does.
0:34.0	That's my understanding.
0:36.0	Okay, well then we've got a long way to go.
0:39.0	Because Silent Hill seems to be many things.
0:42.0	I think for most people out there,
0:43.8	Silent Hill is a video game franchise that started back on the original
0:48.0	PlayStation alongside Resident Evil as one of the first survival horror video games. But like the
0:56.6	Resident Evil franchise and like a lot of video game franchises, it also dipped
1:00.3	into movies. There are two Silent Hill films out there. And in the modern era,
1:06.2	Silent Hill is responsible for effectively influencing like countless indie video game designers and even larger companies to try to tap into some of the psychological horror that Silent Hill popularized.
1:24.0	Yeah, that seemed to be from what I read what kind of said it apart
1:28.0	that it was more like atmospheric and psychological
1:30.0	and less blowing heads off.
1:32.0	Yeah, a thousand percent. It does seem like there were heads. psychological and less blowing heads off.
1:32.6	Yeah, a thousand percent.
1:33.8	It does seem like there were heads blown off.
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